like a rag doll

like a rag doll

With one's limbs flopping around uncontrollably. He tumbled down the hill like a rag doll before coming to rest in a heap down below.The mountain lion took the dog in its jaws and shook it around like a rag doll.

like a rag doll

If someone is like a rag doll, they have no strength and cannot control their movements, often because they are being treated violently. He picked the boy up and shook him like a rag doll.I saw a dog throwing a girl around like a rag doll. Note: A `rag doll' is a child's doll made of cloth.

Looking so small and vulnerable and obviously an unwilling sacrifice, she threw herself into her frenzied dancing, whipping her arms in circles, springing like a gazelle surrounded by a pride of lions, flopping like a rag doll before setting off once more.

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